Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani

Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani

Mohammed-Reza Mahdavi-Kani (also Mahdawi-Kani , Persian محمدرضا مهدوی کنی; * April 8, 1931 in the village of Kan near Tehran in Iran ; † October 21, 2014 ) was a Shiite clergyman with the religious title Ayatollah and Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Beginnings

Kani's father was a cleric. Kani graduated from the elementary school in Kan and studied for three years at the Borhan school in Tehran before moving to Qom was to become clerics. His teachers there included Ruhollah Khomeini , Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpayegani (1895–1993) and the last Marscha-e taqlid Hossein Borudscherdi and the spiritus rector of the Haghani school Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei . Even under Reza Shah Pahlavi , he began to oppose the Shah government. After Borudscherdi's death in 1961, Kani returned to Tehran, where he stood in opposition to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .

Political Islam

In 1977, together with the mastermind of the Iranian-Islamic Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Beheschti , and Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, he founded the Union of the Warring Clergy that played a leading role in the Islamic Revolution. He was one of five clerics in the Revolutionary Council founded by Khomeini in January 1979 in French exile and a founding member of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP). On February 20, 1980, Mahdavi-Kani of Khomeini was appointed to the first Guardian Council. On May 28, 1980, he opened the first parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Under Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi and Mohammed Jawad Bahonar , he was Minister of the Interior as successor to Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni . After the attack on August 30, 1981, in which both prime ministers were killed, Kani served as interim prime minister from September 2, 1981 to October 29, 1981. He fulfilled this role until the later revolutionary leader Ali Khamene'i became president in October 1981 and Kani was replaced by the current opposition politician Mir Hossein Mousavi .

Mahdavi-Kani was most recently president of the Imam Sadiq University in Tehran and, since January 1979, secretary of the Association of Warring Clergy (Dschame'e-ye Rowhaniyat-e Mobarez) . Mahdavi-Kani was also chairman of the party of the Islamic coalition (Motalefeh).

In March 2011, Kani, who had severe health problems, succeeded the influential Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni as chairman of the expert council , which is interpreted as the dismantling of his predecessor. Rafsanjani was regarded as the - economically independent - central pillar of moderately conservative and reformist politics in Iran. Kani himself, however, is also not one of the radical, conservative groups around Ahmad Jannati and Mesbah Yazdi that preach violence and whose success the overthrow of Rafsanjani is seen as a success.

Publications

A selection of Kani's publications are

• The starting point of a practical ethic (in Farsi)
• The Origins & Basis of Islamic Economy (in Farsi, a satire)
• The book of "Beest goftar" (20 discourses, in Farsi)

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of Iran
• History of Iran

Individual evidence

1. ^ Head of Assembly of Experts dies at 83
2. ↑ Iran Report ( Memento from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) May 2011: Mahdawi Kani: "Without clergy it will be bad"
3. ↑ Muhammad Sahimi, Los Angeles, March 14, 2011: Rafsanjani's Exit from Power: What Next?
4. ↑ iraniangerman.wordpress.com, 2010: Men of Violence. Perpetrators of the Post-Election Crackdown